Took six weeks - to obtain zero applicants - Aftonbladet

Josefine Wahlberg, 34, was looking for a young person to hire for their company.

After six weeks, several calls and emails, and a meeting cancellation had not Gumtree found a single job seekers.

– If they can not connect employers and job seekers need to consider what they are really doing on the Gumtree says Josefine Wahlberg.

She is the founder of samtalsappen Jiddr, and realized after a year and a half with the company that she needed more staff. Ideally, she wanted to hire someone who is young, because the app is aimed at young people.

Josefine Wahlberg heard in March last year off to the offices of the Employment Service who were closest to Tyreso in southeastern Stockholm, via email and asked for help.

Something email answers she was not.

– When I got no response, I tried calling but got no answer there either. In the end, I went there and said, you have to want to meet me?

Got set up

Josefine Wahlberg says that she got to meet two dedicated officers who wanted to fix up a meeting where she could meet with young people looking for jobs. There were as many as 365 young unemployed in the municipality at the time, she was told, so surely someone could be interested.

proposal she got from Gumtree on Tyreso was that a person could first get practice on Jiddr, and that practice could then lead to a job.

But an hour before the agreed meeting, she received an email from officers of the Public Employment Service that the meeting was canceled, she says.

– They wrote that they got hold of young people, that they have not had time to do any search and therefore had to cancel the meeting.

Then it had been six weeks ago Josefine Wahlberg began seeking someone to hire.

“Not heard anything for months”

After two more weeks, Josefine Wahlberg and her colleague to come to a meeting and meet with unemployed youth.

– then it did not feel as if they informed the youth that we were coming. They did not know who we were or what we wanted. Many sat and seemed bored, she says.

Eventually she found an interested young man who had to start practicing on Jiddr in May. But when he got into a college education in the fall, she wanted to find someone new to the service.

And the slow process with the Employment Service started again. Josefine Wahlberg approached their nearest office, but received no response.

– In the end, I heard of me at the head office in Stockholm. I had to fill out all the paperwork again and it would be a search of all offices in the Stockholm area. It was almost four months ago, I have not heard anything since then, she says now.

Wrote blog post

She has written a blog post about it all on the internet world, and says that she feels disappointed with the Employment Service.

– It is so very sad that it does not work. I understand that the Employment Service does not have a lot of jobs or unemployed as they can just throw it out, but if they can not connect employers and job seekers need to consider what they really do.

She says that many from them by post, both employers and unemployed youth, and recognize themselves in the inertia which she describes.

Patrik Svensson, Head of the Employment Service, says it is investigating the events that Josefine Wahlberg has written about.

Apologies

– Is it as it stands, it’s just to apologize. We are looking at what’s happened so that we can sort out what has not klaffat and work to make it not happen again.

What do you think of that many will recognize the description of it is slow at the Employment Service, which Josefine describing?
– It is incredibly sad about many perceive it that way. Comfort is that in the surveys with employers that we do is up 90 per cent are satisfied with the service they receive. Hopefully this is an exception that has occurred.

Josefine Wahlberg has now hired an employee – but not through the Employment Service.

More about Josefine Wahlberg’s experiences of Gumtree you can see in the Aftonbladet TV shows Party program broadcast on Wednesday 19 February.